Much of the debate in Louisiana, meanwhile, was whether Johns\u2019 bill constituted gambling expansion, since it proposes reworking the existing the cap on casino floor space. The current limit of 30,000 square feet would be replaced by a cap on gambling positions \u2013 or the amount of seats in front of slots \u2013 at 2,365.<\/p>\n
Johns said his bill would modernize the state\u2019s creaking casino sector, allowing it to incorporate bigger slots with the latest cutting-edge technology, which will help it to deflect competition from the casinos of Oklahoma and Mississippi.<\/p>\n
State Senator Danny Martiny (R-Dist. 10) agreed, and berated fellow senators who thought otherwise.<\/p>\n
We’ve got an industry that’s providing us with income, thank God,” Martiny said. “Everybody that’s against it, sure doesn’t shy away from coming to Appropriations and asking for some of that money.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n“Go back in your office,\u201d he suggested, \u201cget online and you can gamble all you want, and you know how much Louisiana gets out of it? Nothing!”<\/p>\n
Johns\u2019 bill now heads to the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Tuesday, the very day that the Horseshoe Southern Indiana was granted permission by the Indiana Gaming Commission to move its operations onto dry land, hundreds of miles south the Louisiana Senate was approving a bill that would also propel its own riverboat casinos onto terra firma. The Louisiana Senate voted 22-14 to pass State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":76448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Land in Sight for Louisiana Riverboat Casinos as State Senate Passes \u2018River to Shore\u2019 Bill<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n